Little House in the Big Woods

Vocabulary activity for Chapter 10 of Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder!

Here are some exerts from the story. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.

He wore a blue suit buttoned all the way up the front with bright _____ buttons, and trimmed with braid, and he had copper-toed shoes.
1. wooden
2. silver
3. gilt
Mary was all ready, sitting _____ on a chair, with her golden curls shining and her china-blue dress fresh and crisp.
1. restlessly
2. primly
3. quietly
But Ma pulled her hair _____, and it was brown instead of golden, so that no one noticed it.
1. softly
2. painfully
3. dreadfully
It was all so pleasant, and Laura felt so gay and good that no one would ever have thought she could be as _____ as she was that evening.
1. proper
2. nice
3. naughty
When she stopped sobbing, she _____.
1. sulked
2. cried
3. slept
Somebody must kill a calf, for cheese could not be made without _____, and it is the lining of a young calf's stomach.
1. muscle
2. rennet
3. bladder
Then she poured it all into a cloth and let the thin, yellowish _____ drain out.
1. liquid
2. milk
3. whey
Those ______ are getting waist-high around the stumps in the wheatfield.
1. sprouts
2. weeds
3. grasses